Re: SVN as windows service?

On Friday 28 May 2004 23.36, Toby Johnson wrote:
> Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> >How does Apache do it? Is this an Apache or APR issue?
>
> No, using svnserve has nothing to do with Apache.

Rephrasing:

How does Apache run as a service? Is this an Apache or APR issue? :-)

> >I can't imagine
> >that's black belt programming when making svnserve to run as a real
> >service under Windows.
>
> You wouldn't think so, but it's no small task either. It's not a
> simple task of "daemonizing" (i.e. disconnecting from STDIN and STDOUT
> while continuing to run) as it is on *nix, because you also want it to
> run when no one is logged in to the machine. You have to create a
> Windows service to do that.

That's what I want (create a Windows service) and I've found several
links on the 'net on how to do it.

> However, have you looked at firedaemon.com yet? Their tool is *very*
> stable and works extremely well, and the Lite version (which is all
> you need if you only have one service to install) is free.

Yes, and the firedaemon and several other wrappers has been presented
many times on this and the dev list.

I will avoid wrappers if possible and if a wrapper must be used, then I
want to use a home growned one and if that takes to much time..

..then I will probably use a wrapper like firedaemon or some of the other
solutions that can be downloaded from the 'net during installation with
the Windows installer.

Jostein

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